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The
town of Estancia and
the ICE facility are
trucking in water
until a new well is
drilled.
By
Martha Pskowski
Following
years of drought, the
wells in Estancia,
N.M., are running
dry.
 
As
Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware face more
floods, their elected
officials want to use
federal dollars to
deploy natural
mitigation techniques.
By
Avril Silva
Norfolk,
Virginia, has remained
the poster child for
cities facing land
subsidence and
flooding in the
country, struggling
through an onslaught
of storm surges and
blue-sky flooding that
become more frequent
every year. But while
a major storm has not
hit the city directly
since Hurricane
Matthew in 2016, it is
one of the many places
looking to
congressional funding
as a way to fund
preemptive land
management projects to
protect their
shorelines and their
residents.
Hazardous
chemical releases from
industrial accidents
that injured or killed
people increased by
nearly 50 percent in
recent years.
By
Liza Gross
Physicist
Ronald Koopman
appeared at a Southern
California Air
District meeting in
2018 to talk about
what seemed like an
arcane scientific
topic: hydrofluoric
acid dispersion and
water mitigation
testing.
A
warm, dry winter set
the stage for an early
and aggressive start
to fire season. More
fires are on the
horizon.
By
Kiley Price
After
an exceptionally warm
and dry winter, vast
swaths of the Western
United States are up
in flames—and
conditions could get
worse.
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